{"id":1153,"date":"2014-12-03T08:31:49","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T08:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2020-05-06T19:44:24","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T19:44:24","slug":"conference-post-1-initial-ideapro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/?p=1153","title":{"rendered":"Games from Nothing: Conference Project Post #1 \u2014 Bug Spotter Initial Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While sketching in my book, I stumbled upon an idea for a conference project that I immediately fell in love with: I would make a game about a lady bug that gets its spots. Aside from that, I had absolutely no notion of what the game would be like. My initial thought was to have the lady bug crawl up a flower (the bud would be the end point), while avoiding bees and picking up black spots that would fly through the air. You can see this idea in the sketch I drew here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1610.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1155 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1610-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1610\" width=\"499\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1610-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1610-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1610-624x467.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, I soon realized that trying to code such a game in a few weeks might actually do me in. I then settled upon a more reasonable idea that would allow me to combine ideas from the two group games I have worked on. The spots would still scroll around the screen, and they would still show up on the ladybug as it touches them (echoing the circle-appearing aspects of BubbleTower). However, the bee will follow the ladybug and kill it if it touches it &#8212; adding a hider-seeker aspect to this game. The new concept is shown below:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1154 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1611-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1611\" width=\"499\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1611-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1611-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1611-624x467.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was around this time that I came up with the name for my project: Bug Spotter! (Because&#8230;ladybug&#8230;spots&#8230;yeah&#8230;.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While sketching in my book, I stumbled upon an idea for a conference project that I immediately fell in love with: I would make a game about a lady bug that gets its spots. Aside from that, I had absolutely&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":1155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[39,49,50],"class_list":["post-1153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-from-nothing","tag-conference-project","tag-conference-post-1","tag-conference","wpcat-5-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13967,"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions\/13967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}